Blimey that has got to be a first Police going with our travelling support to PROTECT them I reckon it will kick off big styly and to a degree 'state encouraged' The small-dicked Russians will be wanting to show the world that Russians really have no redeeming features at all.

Sounds like you want a piece of it guvnor. Are you making the push to Moscow with our brave Tommys?

And the culinary world is grateful for it. Presumably the ones waving the flags are people with a tenuous connection to the Acadians, a bit like the Druids we have running round in the UK.

Have you read "Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles: Their Nature and Legacy"? It's a pretty reasonable historical survey of pre-Christian British religion, and consequently mostly consists of "we don't know", "we haven't got a clue" and "your guess is as good as mine".

Interestingly the author is (or was) himself a pagan, but is quite clear that neo-paganism is an entirely new religion with essentially no link to pre-Christian beliefs.

I haven't, but I'll have a look for it. It sounds similar to a book about the pre-roman archaeology of London I once read where the author essentialy resorted to making it up fairly obviously.

Oh, he doesn't make stuff up - he just cheerfully acknowledges there's bugger all evidence for pretty much anything, and that therefore anyone claiming to be following an ancient British religion is making it up.

Surely an "Imperialistic" flag would be the Union Jack, not the St George cross?

I've never seen a St George flag on anything to do with Imperial documents, photos of events, etc. over on this side of the pond. That'd surely have triggered our uppity Scots and Orange Irish immigrants.

Amazing choice of word to use when they know its got SFA to do with imperialism.

It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”.

The term 'Union Jack' entered common parlance post 1707 after the largesse arising from the merciless colonial exploitation of people of colour by the ruling white elite began to be widely distributed, and the resulting benefits felt, amongst those same self-serving white exploiters. To be both white British and an active participant in Empire was to have won the lottery of life, hence the coining of the phrase; ''Union? Yeh, I'm alright, Jack''. ''Union Jack'' is literally a spoken contraction of this phrase, ergo the flag is an indefensible racist icon.

The term 'Union Jack' entered common parlance post 1707 after the largesse arising from the merciless colonial exploitation of people of colour by the ruling white elite began to be widely distributed, and the resulting benefits felt, amongst those same self-serving white exploiters. To be both white British and an active participant in Empire was to have won the lottery of life, hence the coining of the phrase; ''Union? Yeh, I'm alright, Jack''. ''Union Jack'' is literally a spoken contraction of this phrase, ergo the flag is an indefensible racist icon.